Archive for the ‘Projects’ Category
Monday, July 26th, 2010
Looking forward to taking part in this at Project Space Leeds in August. If you’re in the area do come and say hi or take part in the late night event on Thursday 12th.. 
here’s the blurb: Emily Speed will create a cyclic drawing on the exterior of the shed over 4 days. Starting with proposals/sketches for structures – reminiscent of bulidings – which are prevalent in her work, Speed will then explore the physical impossibilities of these structures and the drawing will change to show construction, collapse and repair before perhaps collapsing again.
More info on the PSL website
and the Drawing Shed blog
Tags: drawing, Leeds, Project Space Leeds, PSL
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
Last Friday was the launch at of ‘A House Like Me’ at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. The event was to mark the end of my year as bursary holder for the Feiweles Trust at the Park. I have compiled the book and it is a mix of digital printing with screen printed dividers.
It was a lovely day and great to get some feedback on this thing that has been filling my house with piles of paper for weeks.
‘A House Like Me’ is intended for educators wanting to work with conceptual art and is based around the themes in my own practice and the projects I have been doing in schools since last September. The book is not for sale, but a pdf version will be online soon, I will post a link as soon as it’s available. Some images can be viewed in the bookworks section on this website.
ISBN 978-1-871480-85-6, Yorkshire Sulpture Park, 2010. Digital print on paper with screenprinted, card dividers. Digital printed folder.
Tags: Artists' Books, new work, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
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Sunday, June 6th, 2010
I am currently working on a small bookwork, a collaboration of sorts with Nathan Jones, who has been Poet-in-residence at the Bluecoat in Liverpool over the past year. The piece contains his poem, Slow Magic, written about the experience of looking around an exhibition (one of the same name held at the Bluecoat).
Based on a Turkish map fold, the multiple has a screen-printed grey board cover and unfolds, revealing the poem slowly, the creases of the paper acting as illustrations. It’s still very much under-construction (printing tomorrow) but will be available in a limited editon.
The work will be part of
Mistranslations
An exhibition of artworks drawn from Nathan Jones’ period as Poet in Residence at the Bluecoat
16th – 26th June, 2010
Lost Soul and Stranger Service Station, the Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool
featuring print, video and illustrative work by
Scott Spencer
Emily Speed
Philip Marsden
Markus Soukup
Sarah Nicolls
Neil Keeting
and Andre Guedes
Tags: Artists' Books, exhibition, Lost Soul and Stranger Service Station, Nathan Jones, poetry, the Bluecoat
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Sunday, April 11th, 2010
I have been in conversation with Anna Francis, guest editor of ”Talking City’ on the Longhouse website for the past month. It has been an interesting project and you can see the whole conversation here.
I elected to be represented as a blackbird because I often stomp about.
Tags: conversation
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Sunday, April 11th, 2010
I have been working with Elizabeth Willow to make a set for some upcoming comedy/performance art nights at The Bluecoat in Liverpool. The first is April 15th and they will be monthly until July. Set in Vinny’s Flat, they describe the evening…
“Amidst layers of domestic chaos your hosts serve up the leftovers of a promising relationship punctuated by the uncanny intrusion of some half invited special guests: Drunken Chorus pioneer the solo double act, Caroline Wilson offers her existential ‘But I just want to fall in love and work with elephants’, and Julian Fox will do something extraordinary.”
The Bluecoat’s website seems to be playing up, so here is the event on Facebook.
Tags: Bluecoat, cardoard, performance, theatre
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
I spent last week and today working with school groups up in Blackpool for Collaborate and Make. I was commissioned by the Grundy Art Gallery there to create this exhibition and it will be on show until January 30th.
The children have made some great work, plus some of the buildings are big enough to go inside like dens! Grab a torch and go exploring, but be warned – some of the connecting tunnels are quite small so don’t get stuck. There is more cardboard available in the gallery, so visitors can make their own building to add to the city, or an item for the cardboard museum’s collection (it currently only has one cardboard dinosaur).
Tags: Blackpool, cardboard, education, exhibition, Grundy
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
I will mainly be letting my hair down at the studio Christmas party tonight before having a bit of time off (maybe) over the hols.
In January I will be doing a week long project at the Grundy Gallery in Blackpool called ‘Cardboard Cities’. This will involve a lot of school children, cardboard, parcel tape and should end up with some fantastic structures, which will then be exhibited for a week.
Following that it’s straight back to Yorkshire to get back on with the project there…
Tags: art gallery, art in education, Blackpool, Christmas
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Sunday, October 18th, 2009
On Thursday 22nd October I will be speaking at this festival for creative technology in Cardiff; May you Live in Interesting Times. I am talking about artists’ blogs and online networks, both things I probably spend too much time using..
Tags: blogs, Cardiff, seminar
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Friday, July 3rd, 2009
Found out last week that Liverpool Biennial put me forward for a residency over the summer with Linz Kutur at the Atelierhaus; a newly renovated artists studio centre and exhibition space in the centre of Linz, Austria.
So, I leave on Tuesday – loads of time to plan and everything. But, this last-minute-ness may be a blessing in disguise so I am ready to get there and just see what happens…. Linz seems to be a bit of a rebel as far as Austria is concerned, with loads of contemporary art and architecture, not to mention the Ars Electronica Centre and festival, can’t wait!
I may even come back all digital!
new blog on a-n to document the process coming soon and I shall be having an online conversation throughout with Fiona Flynn, an artist from London, who will be in Vilnius (the other Capital of Culture this year) at the same time..
Bye for now.
Links for
Linz, Capital of Culture, Vilnius Capital of Culture and the place I’ll be living/working in: Salzamt Atelierhaus Linz
Tags: Austria, Capital of Culture, Linz, residency, Salzamt
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
The book fair went really well and great to meet some new faces, especially Simon Goode (and his beautiful letterpressed book) as well as Unrealised Projects and their really interesting work.
Now I am waiting on some decisions to decide my summer months for me, generally planning plenty of studio time and preparation for the Yorkshire Sculpture Park project, which starts in September.
Some atrocious phtoos of the book fair from my mobile phone attached.
Tags: studio, Work in Progress
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